Knowledge Works : Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Japan Business and Economics Series
ISBN-10
0195081951
ISBN-13
9780195081954
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 1997
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
575 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 15.90 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesSociology: work & labourBusiness & managementIndustry & industrial studies
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The book describes why in the past twenty-five years Japanese productivity, that is, the amount of output per worker, has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the United States.
This book offers a close-up look at a factory in Japan that is typical of what the author calls `Knowledge Works''. Like so many Japanese factories, this one - the Yanagicho works of the Toshiba Corporation - is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to this is the continuous creation and application of knowledge throughout the factory, from workers on the shop floor, to research and development engineers, to top management. The author explains how Japanese culture and religion prepare workers for their role in this process of creating and disseminating knowledge.
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